Next Challenge
(Day Thirty-Eight)
I'm trying to get my blog post done early tonight so I can tune out and not think about anything, but I'm having a hard time coming up with anything worth writing about.
When this sixty day challenge is over, I'd like to start a new challenge, one focused more on writing something of substance and length. Maybe that just means the challenge becomes writing a certain number of words a day, but it doesn't have to be on the blog? That's going to mean my blogging goes way down, but it would give me more freedom to write things and not have to worry about putting them on the internet.
I'd like to figure out a project, whether it's a book or a short story or even just a series of pieces on a certain theme or topic. I've been tossing around a couple ideas, none of which I will write down here, because don't you know you're supposed to be ultra-secret with your intellectual property? ;)
But two of them are nonfiction, one is science fiction, and one is more literary. It's hard figuring out what to start first, and even harder once you think of all the work involved in completing any one of them, but you have to start somewhere, right? Either you start or you don't, and then suddenly it's a year later and you're no closer to your goal.
Why does everything have to be so hard and so much work? Whine whine whine. It's because if it was easy, everyone would do it. I know that. But I'm still going to whine about it.
I know I've compared writing to running before, but it really is similar -- I know if I put my running shoes on and physically get myself to wherever I want to run, the rest is easy. Yeah, maybe I won't run a lot, or I won't run very fast, but if I'm standing there on the pavement in my running shoes, I might as well move. If I'm moving, I might as well run a little. Once I gave myself permission to run as slow as I wanted, it really hasn't seemed as daunting. I think the same goes for writing. Put yourself in the location and with the equipment -- in this case, in front of my computer with Blogger open -- and you might as well write. Yeah, maybe I won't write much, or it won't be very good, but if I have the screen open, I might as well put some words on it. I can write as crappy as I want.
Look at that -- I wrote enough to consider this a blog post. HA.
I'm trying to get my blog post done early tonight so I can tune out and not think about anything, but I'm having a hard time coming up with anything worth writing about.
When this sixty day challenge is over, I'd like to start a new challenge, one focused more on writing something of substance and length. Maybe that just means the challenge becomes writing a certain number of words a day, but it doesn't have to be on the blog? That's going to mean my blogging goes way down, but it would give me more freedom to write things and not have to worry about putting them on the internet.
I'd like to figure out a project, whether it's a book or a short story or even just a series of pieces on a certain theme or topic. I've been tossing around a couple ideas, none of which I will write down here, because don't you know you're supposed to be ultra-secret with your intellectual property? ;)
But two of them are nonfiction, one is science fiction, and one is more literary. It's hard figuring out what to start first, and even harder once you think of all the work involved in completing any one of them, but you have to start somewhere, right? Either you start or you don't, and then suddenly it's a year later and you're no closer to your goal.
Why does everything have to be so hard and so much work? Whine whine whine. It's because if it was easy, everyone would do it. I know that. But I'm still going to whine about it.
I know I've compared writing to running before, but it really is similar -- I know if I put my running shoes on and physically get myself to wherever I want to run, the rest is easy. Yeah, maybe I won't run a lot, or I won't run very fast, but if I'm standing there on the pavement in my running shoes, I might as well move. If I'm moving, I might as well run a little. Once I gave myself permission to run as slow as I wanted, it really hasn't seemed as daunting. I think the same goes for writing. Put yourself in the location and with the equipment -- in this case, in front of my computer with Blogger open -- and you might as well write. Yeah, maybe I won't write much, or it won't be very good, but if I have the screen open, I might as well put some words on it. I can write as crappy as I want.
Look at that -- I wrote enough to consider this a blog post. HA.